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February 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

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All fixed commemorations below are observed on February 17 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For February 4th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on January 22.

Feasts

  • Afterfeast of the Meeting of our Lord in the Temple.

    • Saints

  • Martyrs Jadorus and Isidore, who suffered under Decius (3rd century)
  • Hieromartyr Phileas, Bishop of Thmuis, and Martyr Philoromus the Magistrate (c. 303)
  • Martyr Theoctistus, by the sword.
  • Venerable John of Irenopolis, Bishop of Irenopolis, Cilicia and one of the 318 fathers of Nicaea (c. 325)
  • Hieromartyr Abramius of Arbela, Bishop of Arbela in Assyria (c. 344-347)
  • Venerable Isidore of Pelusium (c. 436-440)
  • Saint Evagrius, fellow-ascetic of St. Shio of Mgvime, Georgia (6th century)
  • Venerable Nicetas of Pythiae (modern Kouri) (pre-iconoclasm)
  • Venerable Iasimos the Wonderworker (Jasim), monk and healer.
  • Venerable Nicholas the Confessor, Abbot, of the Studion Monastery (868)

    • Pre-Schism Western saints

  • Martyrs Aquilinus, Geminus, Gelasius, Magnus and Donatus, martyrs in 'Forum Sempronii', which has been interpreted as Fossombrone in central Italy (3rd century)
  • Martyr Eutychius, in Rome under Diocletian (4th century)
  • Saint Aventinus of Chartres, Bishop of Chartres (c. 520)
  • Saint Aventinus of Troyes, an almoner to St Lupus, Bishop of Troyes, then became a hermit at Saint-Aventin (c. 538)
  • Saint Vincent of Troyes, Bishop of Troyes (c. 546)
  • Hieromartyr Aldate of Gloucester (6th century)
  • Saint Modan, Abbot of Stirling and Falkirk (6th century)
  • Saint Liephard, a bishop and companion of King Cædwalla of Wessex during the latter's pilgrimage to Rome, martyred near Cambrai in France (690)
  • Saint Vulgis, Bishop and Abbot of Lobbes Abbey in Belgium (c. 760)
  • Saint Nithard, a monk at Corbie Abbey in Saxony in Germany and a companion of St Ansgar, whom he followed to Sweden as a missionary, martyred there by pagan Swedes (845)
  • Saint Rembert, Bishop of Hamburg-Bremen (865)

    • Post-Schism Orthodox saints

  • Right-Believing George of Vladimir, Great Prince of Vladimir (1238)
  • Venerable Abraham and Coprius, founders of Pechenga Monastery in Vologda (15th century)
  • Venerable Cyril, Abbot and Wonderworker of New Lake Monastery (Novoezersk) in Novgorod (1532) (see also June 15 and November 7)

    • New martyrs and confessors

  • Venerable Martyr Anthony of Supraśl (1516)
  • New Martyr Joseph of Aleppo in Syria (1686)
  • New Hieromartyr Methodius (Krasnoperov), Bishop of Petropavlovsk (1921)
  • New Hieromartyrs (1938):
  • Theodosius (Bobkov), Hieromonk of the Chudov Monastery, Moscow
  • Nicholas Kandaurov, Archpriest, Moscow
  • Boris Nazarov, Archpriest, of Protasievo, Verey
  • Alexander Pokrovsky, Archpriest, of Mineyevo, Moscow
  • Alexander Sokolov, Archpriest, of Paveltsovo, Moscow
  • Peter Sokolov, Archpriest, of Klin, Moscow
  • John Tikhomirov, Archpriest, of Petrovskoye, Moscow
  • John Artobolevsky, Archpriest, Moscow
  • John Aleshkovsky, priest
  • Alexander Minervin, priest
  • Alexis Sharov, priest
  • Eustace Sokolsky, priest
  • Sergius Soloviev, priest
  • Nicholas Pospelov, priest, of Bylovo, Podolsk
  • New Martyr Raphaela, Schemanun, of Moscow (1938)
  • Virgin-martyrs Anna and Catherine (1938)
  • Martyrs Seraphim, John, Basil, Demetrius, Theodore, and Demetrius (1938)

    • Other commemorations

  • Repose of the royal recluse Nun Dosithea of Moscow (1810)

    • References

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